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It won't work
My sister-in-law and nephew are both teachers, neither want anything to do with carrying a gun to school. Both say they worked to obtain their education degrees in order to educate children, not to act as police officers. This reflects the views of over 75% of teachers nationwide. The GOP's nonsensical plan to arm teachers is a non-starter, even in deep red states. Banning assault weapons, and closing gun show loopholes, would be at least small steps in curbing mass shootings in America.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/22/595648318/poll-most-u-s-teachers-want-gun-control-not-guns-to-carry
@mchill saidWe see this red herring over and over. Its not that a teacher is carrying a gun, it's that they might be carrying a gun. And to quote zahlooney "if it saves one life it's worth it."
It won't work
My sister-in-law and nephew are both teachers, neither want anything to do with carrying a gun to school. Both say they worked to obtain their education degrees in order to educate children, not to act as police officers. This reflects the views of over 75% of teachers nationwide. The GOP's nonsensical plan to arm teachers is a non-starter, even in deep red st ...[text shortened]... w.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/22/595648318/poll-most-u-s-teachers-want-gun-control-not-guns-to-carry
Also in a gun free zone a shooter can do as much damage with a bolt action rifle or even a pistol if they're the only one with a gun, so your ban assault weapons is just you being a parrot, you may as well be saying 'polly want a cracker".
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@sonhouse saidYou and vivify share the same misrepresentation MO, I specifically said it's not that everyone is armed, it's that anyone could be armed.
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Funny how there were over 100 police in Texas that day which resulted in 19 children killed. Yeah, arming everyone is the way to go. Sure, and I have a GREAT bridge for sale...
Can you read or do I need to adopt your childish capitalisation to emphasise words. Here let me try stooping to your level, a sonhouse translation:
YOU and vivify SHARE the same MISREPRESENTATION MO, I specifically said it's NOT that EVERYONE is armed, it's that ANYONE COULD BE armed.
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@jj-adams saidIf you have already made your proposals re: how to deal with the problem of mass-shootings in America, could you point me to the thread where you posted those?
I wouldn't want to live in a country that needs armed teachers.
Sadly, that is where America is headed.
There were a dozen more mass-shootings in the USA this past weekend, after the one at Robb Elementary School.